Abstract

The study aims: (1 )to discover the foreign journal referred by the Gadjah Mada University Psychology Journal dating from 1997 to 2006, (2) to know the percentage of use of the subscribed foreign journal by the Faculty Library of Psychology, Gadjah Mada University founded in Gadjah Mada University Psychology Journal from 1997 to 2006, (3) to know the relevancy and use of foreign journal by the scientific article in the Gadjah Mada University Psychology Journal dating from 1997 to 2006, (4) to know the currency of the foreign journal referred by Gadjah Mada University Psychology Journal dating from 1997 to 2006. The study is a descriptive research with the Gadjah Mada University Psychology Journal by 1997-2006 as a subject, and the foreign journals referred in Gadjah Mada University Psychology Journal by 1997-2006 as an object. Documentation, and interview are used as methods of collecting data, and citation analysis as an data analysis. The result of study: (1) There are 148 titles offoreign journal cited in Gadjah Mada University Journal of Psychology dating from 1997-2006, including 14 titles of the journal subscribed by Faculty Library of Gadjah Mada University, (2) The freguence of the citation of the 14 titles was that: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by 68 times (39,76%), Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology by 23 (13,45%), Journal of Applied Psychology by 21 (12,28%), Psychological Bulletin by 11 (6,43%), Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Journal of Counseling Psychology by 9 respectively ( 5,26%), Journal of Educational Psychology by 8 (4,67%), Developmental Psychology by 7 (4,09%), Journal of Occupational Psychology by 5 (2,92%), Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology and Psychological Review by 3 respectively (1,75%), Journal of Experimental Psychology by 2 (1,16%), American Psychologist and Health Psychology by 1 each (0,58%). (3) There are also a relevancy between the scientific article and the foreign journal referred, in the Gadjah Mada University Psychology Journal dating from 1997 to 2006 (4) The foreign journal subscribed by the Faculty Library of Psychology Gadjah Mada University was included in a current category (52,77%), not current category (45,47%), and more than 30 years (1,76%).